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Extra Ram in Task Manager

task manager shows extra cmd.exe/conhost/explorer - why?I leave my Win7 pro machine running from 8am to about midnight every day and when it's off, it was done so by Start->Sleep (for quick boot time). Sometimes I'll have cause to go into the task manager and despite having no visible CMD windows or explorer windows (or perhaps just one), I'll see...

General Discussion

Game runs from Task Manager with New Task, not from shortcut or exeI have installed this game, Singularity. The game worked fine for a week then suddenly It would crash as soon as it was opened from the desktop shortcut. The game is patched to it's latest version, I have direct x all other runtimes and PhysX installed from the CD.
The shortcut it set to run as...

Monitor Page file in task manager / resource managerFirst,
I apologize if this is a really basic question or already answered, I promise I did search, but I may be missing it.
Question; I am installing more RAM in my system, and want to monitor the page file for improvement/reduction in size and use. Other than performance monitor, can I see...

Performance & Maintenance

Task ManagerNot quite sure which area this should go in (customization? Software? somewhere else?), so I am sorry if this appears to be in the wrong place and I am also sure some kind mod will move it as needed.
I'd like to do three things with task manager. These are:
#1. Auto start the task manager...